On Monday, the charges were filed against the man who ran over Alejandro Valverde (Murcia) and his accomplices last Saturday in Alcantarilla. The road connects the municipality to Javali Viejo. Yesterday morning, the arrested person appeared in court to give evidence before the chief of the Investigating Court number 3 (Murcia), who was on duty.
The defendant is a 69 year-old male and a resident in the Murcian District of La Nora. The defendant was also a member of Civil Guard and worked for a while as an assistant at Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Murcia.
Sources from the TSJ of Murcia state that the defendant must appear at the court hearing the case. In any case, the defendant must also appear on the 1st or 15th of every month. In the order, the magistrate states that although there are signs of possible road safety offenses, injuries, and abandonment at the scene of an accident, it is not clear that provisional detention would be justified if the defendant failed to meet the requirements (risk of escape, concealment, destruction or destruction of evidence, or prevent criminal repetition). In a precautionary move, the judge also consented to the intervention of her vehicle and to the revocation of her driving license.
The driver of the vehicle that intentionally rammed the Movistar team runners and his friends, was arrested on Saturday at the Murcia Local Police Station in La Alberca. He remained in Murcia’s National Police dungeons ever since.
The outrage was only a scare, however. Alejandro Valverde was not seriously injured when he was taken to the Virgende la Arrixaca hospital. After undergoing several tests, Alejandro Valverde was discharged from the hospital and is now back at home.
Lawyer Ariane Santiago, who is representing Alejandro Valverde in his case against him for running over a group of cyclists last Saturday, said that her client was driving her car that morning with his sister-in law and his wife. He also denied that he intended to do so. Ariane Santiago, a lawyer who defended Alejandro Valverde in his attack on cyclists yesterday, said that he did not retreat from attacking them and that there were witnesses who could confirm it. She went to the City of Justice of Murcia to see her client before the Court of Instruction number 3 as guard.
“He would like to speak to the media and tell them his story. He is now mentally and physically unwell after spending 45 hours in custody by police. He revealed that everything is happening to him.
Santiago explained that they requested the “habeas corpus” -procedure where it is requested that the accused appear before a judge immediately to determine whether the arrest should continue or be shortened -considering that the request was not proportional to Santiago’s advanced age and that he does not have a police record. . He said that he was a good man. The lawyer stated that his client wanted to speak to Valverde and other wounded people, “since he’s sorry; it wasn’t his intention.”
The man, aged 69, is a Murcian resident from La Nora. He denies that he has received death threats via social media and that he stated that he “wishes for the death of bicycles” before the accident.
